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☆ Remote workers and middle managers are most likely to get let go during layoff season, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Remote workers and middle managers are often more vulnerable to layoffs, experts say. Remote workers who are anxious about job security should return to the office, one expert said. Still, there's likely to be more cuts on the way, experts say, and remote workers and middle managers may be prime targets. Middle managers are also vulnerable, experts say. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in 2023: "I don't think you want a management structure that's just managers managing managers, managing managers, managing managers, managing the people who are doing the work."

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☆ Gig driving was a glimmer of hope for many people with disabilities — but for some, it's a dead end.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Some told BI that they can't find other accommodating jobs and that gig work is a dead end. He said gig driving was one of his only options to supplement his disability benefits. Robert is one of many disabled gig drivers who say they have no other options to make a living. "Disabled gig workers can be forced to rely on gig work for income because of issues with exclusion and discrimination in traditional workplaces," Shruti Sannon, a technology-policy program director at the ACLU who authored a paper on disabled gig workers, said. For many disabled gig drivers with medical issues, gig work is a temporary but necessary step toward getting back on their feet.

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TORONTO (AP) — Louis C.K. Now, a new documentary premiering in Toronto, where C.K.’s downfall began, is delving into one of most debated #MeToo cases. “In the early years, the advice I was given was: Don’t make this movie,” says Suh, who directed the Barack Obama-narrated docuseries “Working: What We Do All Day.”Suh, herself, was a big fan of Louis C.K. In his 2020 self-distributed special “Sincerely Louis C.K,” he began by asking the crowd about their last few years. “It feels like every time there’s a news event, it’s like: ‘#MeToo is failing’ or ‘#MeToo is succeeding,’” says Lingo.

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☆ Hollywood Writers Will Go on Strike, Halting Production
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( John Koblin | Brooks Barnes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The writers want to also fix the formula for residual payments, which have been upended by streaming. Years ago, writers could receive residual payments whenever a show was licensed — into syndication or through DVD sales. But writers are often paid less to work in minirooms, W.G.A. Writers have also said that the sudden growth of minirooms has also disrupted the decades-long art of learning how to make a television show. “This is stuff that you have to experience.”But because of minirooms, writers are sent home after as little as 10 weeks, and frequently are not around for the production process at all, he said.

☆ Will a Chatbot Write the Next ‘Succession’?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Noam Scheiber | John Koblin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When the union representing Hollywood writers laid out its list of objectives for contract negotiations with studios this spring, it included familiar language on compensation, which the writers say has either stagnated or dropped amid an explosion of new shows. But far down, the document added a distinctly 2023 twist. Under a section titled “Professional Standards and Protection in the Employment of Writers,” the union wrote that it aimed to “regulate use of material produced using artificial intelligence or similar technologies.”To the mix of computer programmers, marketing copywriters, travel advisers, lawyers and comic illustrators suddenly alarmed by the rising prowess of generative A.I., one can now add screenwriters. “It is not out of the realm of possibility that before 2026, which is the next time we will negotiate with these companies, they might just go, ‘you know what, we’re good,’” said Mike Schur, the creator of “The Good Place” and co-creator of “Parks and Recreation.”

☆ See the rare green comet in pictures so you know what to look for in the sky
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A rare green comet is flying past Earth in late January and early February. Comet ZTF hasn't passed our planet since the last Ice Age, and humans may never see it again. These stunning photos show what you could see if you spot the green comet in the night sky. If you catch Comet ZTF with a telescope, you could see something like this:Comet ZTF, as photographed on January 18, 2023. Want to see the green comet yourself?

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